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John Dryden was a man of various trades and influenced the opinions of many during the Restoration. He was a poet, a playwright, a critic, and a translator of foreign works to English. Dryden was a prominent write from the time he was twenty-nine years old to the time of his death, at seventy-nine years (1660-1700). Many of his works were centered on politics Dryden wrote about a dozen poems in the first decade of his literary career.

He presented an argument, supporting evidence, and convinced the readers to agree with him by using analogies and metaphors. (Anderson 459) Dryden set standards in poetry and many, including Alexander Pope, modeled their poetry after his. After 1680, Dryden changed the face of British poetry; he popularized a new style called verse satires. To fill the financial gaps, Dryden turned to writing plays for local theaters, where they became quite popular. Dryden's poetry did not support his lifestyle and his household (a wife and three sons). He "perfect[ed] the technique of English poetry, regularize[d] meter, and [made] diction precise". Ultimately, he would be stripped of both titles in 1688, because he converted to Catholicism in 1685. asional", written for special events and occasions, including Astraea Redux, celebrating the restoration of King Charles II to the English throne in 1660, and Annus Mirabilis, in which he praised King Charles' actions during the war between England and Holland and the Great Fire of London. In the beginning he wrote heroic tragedies, but comedy and drama were also popular themes of his. Despite the popularity of his plays during the Restoration, few have been performed posthumously. (Anderson 458) Dryden used poetry to express his opinions on the government of England. These poems were so highly praised by the government that, in 1668, Dryden was named Poet Laureate and Historiographer Royal in 1670. The EncyclopA�dia Britannica goes so far to say that he was the greatest English verse satirist to that point.

Stephen Gossen makes charges on poetry which Sidney answers.
The charges are:
1. Poetry is the waste of time.
2. Poetry is mother of lies.
3. It is nurse of abuse.
3. Plato had rightly banished the poets from his ideal world.
Against these charges, Sidney has answered them in the following ways-
Poetry is the source of knowledge and a civilizing force, for Sidney. Gossoon attacks on poetry saying that it corrupts the people and it is the waste of time, but Sidney says that no learning is so good as that which teaches and moves to virtue and that nothing can both teach and amuse so much as poetry does. In essay societies, poetry was the main source of education. He remembers ancient Greek society that respected poets. The poets are always to be looked up. So, poetry is not wasted of time.
To the second charge, Sidney answers that poet does not lie because he never affirms that his fiction is true and can never lie. The poetic truths are ideal and universal. Therefore, poetry cannot be a mother of lies.
Sidney rejects that poetry is the source of abuses. To him, it is people who abuses poetry, not the vice- versa. Abuses are more nursed by philosophy and history than by poetry, by describing battles, bloodshed, violence etc. On the contrary, poetry helps to maintain morality and peace by avoiding such violence and bloodsheds. Moreover it brings light to knowledge.
Sidney views that Plato in his Republic wanted to banish the abuse of poetry not the poets. He himself was not free from poeticality, which we can find in his dialogues. Plato never says that all poets should be banished. He called for banishing only those poets who are inferior and unable to instruct the children.
For Sidney, art is the imitation of nature but it is not slavish imitation as Plato views. Rather it is creative imitation. Nature is dull, incomplete and ugly. It is artists who turn dull nature in to golden color. He employs his creative faculty, imagination and style of presentation to decorate the raw materials of nature. For Sidney, art is a speaking picture having spatiotemporal dimension. For Aristotle human action is more important but for Sidney nature is important.
Artists are to create arts considering the level of readers. The only purpose of art is to teach and delight like the whole tendency of Renaissance. Sidney favors poetic justice that is possible in poet's world where good are rewarded and wicked people are punished.
Plato's philosophy on ' virtue' is worthless at the battlefield but poet teaches men how to behave under all circumstances. Moral philosophy teaches virtues through abstract examples and history teaches virtues through concrete examples but both are defective. Poetry teaches virtue by example as well as by percept (blend of abstract + concrete). The poet creates his own world where he gives only the inspiring things and thus poetry holds its superior position to that of philosophy and history.
In the poet's golden world, heroes are ideally presented and evils are corrupt. Didactic effect of a poem depends up on the poet's power to move. It depends up on the affective quality of poetry. Among the different forms of poetry like lyric, elegy, satire, comedy etc. epic is the best form as it portrays heroic deeds and inspires heroic deeds and inspires people to become courageous and patriotic.
In this way, Sidney defines all the charges against poetry and stands for the sake of universal and timeless quality of poetry making us know why the poets are universal genius.

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